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April 5, 2011 Judicial Ballot Picks: David Prosser & Lloyd Carter
Tuesday, April 5th's election has risen in scope from being a typical sleepy non-partisan spring election to one gaining national attention. For the first time ever, I had an email from a person in California asking about where he could donate to help Judge David Prosser. (See links below.) And it is no wonder, for this election will mark a turning point in our state.
Depending on the outcome, Wisconsin's Supreme Court will remain dominated by 4 judges who believe in the rule of law or change over to become dominated by 4 activist judges, those who believe you can legislate from the bench. Judge David Prosser IS the swing vote.
The choice is between fair-minded, pro-life Justice David Prosser and Greeniac, Green Party backing, DNR Attorney Joanne Kloppenberg for this very important, 10 year term, position on the highest court of our state.
Joanne Kloppenberg has NO JUDICIAL experience and in fact has been turned down 3 times for state and federal judgeships by Gov. Jim Doyle and President Obama. For comparison, Kloppenberg is to the far left of liberal former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler who Doyle appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2004 and Obama nominated for Federal Judge in the United States District Court in 2009. (Butler, perceived as too liberal, was rejected by the U.S. Senate.)
Take a look at Judge David Prosser's Endorsement page, and you will see former Wisconsin Republican GovernorTommy Thompson listed there as Campaign Chair* and numerous Wisconsin State Representatives and Senators. Even The Journal Sentinel Editorial stated We Back Prosser in the primary. The Sun Prarie Star is endorsing Prosser on April 5th.
Tough on Crime Prosser also has Law Enforcement and experience on his side, having been "involved in more than 900 published decisions on the Supreme Court" alone and "authored at least 45 criminal case opinions", whereas Kloppenberg has only handled 51 overall cases ever in appellate and supreme courts, with only 7 being criminal cases, rightly acknowledges, "I never said I was tough on crime".
Between her statement that she would serve as a "check and balance on overreaching by the other branches of government" [the executive and state legislature] and her husband's public support of collective bargaining rights for public employees, it is difficult to believe she has or will remain "independent" on the collective bargaining bill.
If you wish to help David Prosser's campaign, you may donate to Citizens for Impartial Justice, Wisconsin Club for Growth to help them put ads on the airwaves, or volunteer at your local Republican Headquarters branch. The GOP is looking for people to man the phone banks, help put together yard signs, etc. In Waukesha, 1701 Pearl St., they are open M-Sat 9am-9pm, Sun. Noon - 8pm.
Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge
As for our more local race for Waukesha Country Circuit Court Judge, Branch 4, my vote is going for Lloyd Carter, as I stated in Lloyd Carter for Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge. Check out his page of endorsements and supporters.
ELMBROOK residents select school board representatives: April 5, 2011 Elmbrook School Board Ballot Picks: Brunner & Write-In Kormanik
More Reading:
National Review, Robert Costa: Wisconsin Fight Goes to Court
April 5, 2011 Elmbrook School Board Ballot Picks: Brunner & Write-In Kormanik
Judge David Prosser & Jeff Stone need your support.
How about a little Love & Respect?
Doesn't everyone want a little love and respect?
The Apostle Paul in the Bible tells husbands to love their wives and wives to respect their husbands in Ephesians 5:33. Two short little commands that are often difficult to carry out.
And because husbands and wives often stumble in these 2 areas, Elmbrook Church is holding a Love and Respect Marriage Conference with Dr. Emerson Eggerichs, the author of the book Love & Respect, this Friday, April 8, from 6:45pm - 10pm and Saturday, from 8:45am - 1:30pm. The cost is $45 per person.
If you are thinking this is one of those marriage conferences aimed at what men do wrong, think again. I have heard good things about both the conference and the book from my own pastor and from a girlfriend who attends Elmbrook. She told me that Dr. Eggerichs recently spoke at their church and was very funny. He uses many humorous examples to illustrate his points and is pretty even handed when it comes to helping each of the sexes see where they could improve how they relate to their other half.
Elmbrook Church is located at 777 S. Barker Road in Brookfield, WI, south of Blumound Road, north of Greenfield Ave.
April Autism Awareness Month- Early Detection & Intervention
April is Autism Awareness Month at Milwaukee Center for Longevity Medicine. CDC's most recent report from the 11 sites that make up the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network identified 2,757 children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) in a total population of 308,038 children aged 8 years, indicating a prevalence of approximately one in 110 (or 1% of children)
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Encouraged to hear he "already voted for Kormanik"
I passed out a few fliers for Nancy Kormanik to Brookfield residents at church today. They were all well received.
But as I approached a couple from Elm Grove, I did wonder how they would react to Nancy's candidacy--after all, closing schools is definitely on the table. The wife set my mind at ease when she looked at the flier and said, Oh, my husband already voted [absentee] for this Kormanik. He read about her in the paper and thought she was the best choice. I am going to vote for her on Tuesday. We think we should close some of our schools.
So they had come to that conclusion entirely on their own.
Another person I correspond with via email from time to time originally said they were voting for Wilson because they didn't think a write-in would win. Yesterday, they emailed again to tell me they changed their minds...they were voting for Kormanik.
I spoke with a few neighbors; they reacted very positively too. One man said he was going to take a few fliers to the gym to share with his buddies.
That is how grassroots efforts work, so I am encouraged.
Make a few calls. Send out some emails. Print a few fliers to give out. Talk to your friends and neighbors, and be sure to VOTE on Tuesday!
How to Write-In candidate Nancy Kormanik
April 5, 2011 Elmbrook School Board Ballot Picks: Brunner & Kormanik
Guest Posting 2: Nancy Kormanik on ENROLLMENT
Guest Posting: Nancy Kormanik Fiscal Conservative
Conservatives, you now have a real choice:Write-In Nancy Kormanik
What? Families who HAVE 4K petition to join Elmbrook WITHOUT 4K?
School Board candidate forum to be replayed [3 times daily] through Election Day
April events at the South Milwaukee Public Library
Story time begins on Tuesday, April 5th at 10:30 pm. Still time to register. We have stories, crafts and games for the children. Children between the ages of 2 - 6 years old are welcomed.
The Friends of the Library book sale will be held on Saturday, April 9th from 9:30-3.
Join us as we celebrate National Library week, April 10-16th. We will be giving away a book each day. There will be drawings for a children's book and an adult book. On Tuesday, April 12th we will have our family fun night and ice cream social from 6 - 7:45 pm. David "HB" Drake will present a "Gather the family" concert.
The Library will be closed on Friday, April 22. We will be open again on Saturday, April 23rd from 9am - 4 pm.
The Greater Milwaukee Rose Society will present a program "Roses for Southeastern Wisconsin" on Wednesday, April 27 a6 6:30 pm in Meeting Room 1. Everyone welcomed.
Time to start thinking about your lawn and garden. Check out our collection of books and magazines to help you achieve that beautiful yard and garden.
We still have tax forms. Remember, you have until Monday, April 18th.
Brookfield Ashley store to open Friday
The area's newest Ashley Furniture Homestore will open Friday, April 8, at 16300 W. Blue Mound Rd., at the former site of Linens 'n Things.
The 30,000-square-foot showroom is the third Ashley store in the area. Other locations are on S. 27th St. in Franklin and near the Cabela's store in Richfield. The company also has stores in Kenosha, Madison and Middleton.
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Adrenal fatigue can affect anyone who experiences frequent, persistent or severe mental, emotional or physical stress.* It can also be an important contributing factor in health conditions ranging from allergies to obesity.* Despite its prevalence in our modern world, adrenal fatigue has generally been ignored and misunderstood by the medical community.* In order to help the many individuals experiencing this problem, Dr. Solano will speaking on this important subject May 3rd at MD Custom Rx in Brookfield at 6:30 pm. Seating limited.
If voter turnout is like blog traffic, Prosser will win & Ballot Picks
See sample ballot below: Prosser, Carter, Write-In Kormanik & Brunner
Election results will start pouring in less than 24 hours from now. The big question is, will Justice David Prosser win? or will the union backed Kloppenberg prevail? That question is burning in the psyche of people with a political bent on both sides of the isle.
In uneasy conversations with fellow Conservatives regarding Prosser's chances, I have said that if Wisconsin sees the same level of citizen involvement as Tosa City Hall did the night they were going to vote on a union contract, Prosser will win. (For those outside the metropolitan area, in mid March, over 100 concerned residents came to "lobby city officials to put off approving union contracts" until after the state passed their budget repair bill. There were also "hundreds of calls and e-mails". I don't believe there was much lead time for this meeting, which makes the large number of attendees even more impressive. The counsel listened to their constituents and voted no.)
However, if people have a relapse of their all too common malady, attention-span-of-a-gnat-itis, and sit out this election, we conservatives are in trouble.
But in checking my blog page load/unique visitor numbers today, I noticed my numbers were very high. In fact, I was at an all time hit count high since I started blogging in 2004! That tells me people are looking.
When I checked the popular pages chart, I saw they were looking at my posts on David Prosser, Lloyd Carter, and Elmbrook School Board: Nancy Kormanik and Richard Brunner. That tells tells me interest is high. And if interest translates to voters, Conservatives will be happy.
Elmbrook voters, check out Fairly Conservative. Cindy shares her email correspondence with candidate Kathryn Wilson, in which Kathryn states she is going to vote YES on 4K. There are also some insights on Cindy's ballot picks Nancy Kormanik and Richard Brunner. (Scroll about half way down the page.)
No doubt, I will get my usual calls tomorrow morning from people asking who to vote for, so I am including all the links to Nancy Kormanik's articles and posts below just to make it easy for those of you who haven't quite decided yet.
Don't take a chance and sit this one out--be sure to VOTE!
A look at the indoor season honor roll!
With the Indoor Track season closing out, let's look at some of the local names (Brookfield and Wauwatosa) in the Track & Field honor rolls.
First, the girls.
Too close for my liking, a nail biter extraordinaire
As I sat at my computer at nearly 1am, the results were still not conclusive on Prosser/Kloppenberg, with 98% reporting and Prosser ahead by a slim 1,878 votes.
But one thing is conclusive... I just received an email about assembling a team of experienced election observers and lawyers to monitor the recount, as required by law with such a slim margin.
When I awoke this morning, 99% reporting, Prosser's lead was down to 585, with several precincts in heavy Democrat territory still not in on the AP page. (Only Taylor is Republican.)
This is really torture! I am going back to bed.
Brookfield Target store could break ground in August
A Target store planned for Brookfield's former Quebecor World printing plant site could have a groundbreaking in late August.
That's the word from Dan Ertl, City of Brookfield director of community development. Ertl told me the next round of plan and zoning approvals for the proposed store begins with a Plan Commission meeting on Monday, followed by a public hearing on June 7.
A Month Full of Service Projects at St. John Vianney School
The month of April is filled with student-sponsored service projects at St. John Vianney School.
Foundation Seeks New Board Members for 2011-12: Application Deadline 5/6/11
The Elmbrook Education Foundation (EEF) Board is seeking individuals to serve as part of their Board of Directors. Eligible individuals include residents of the Elmbrook School District, alumni of any Elmbrook School, non-resident parents of students currently within the Elmbrook School District (e.g. Chapter 220 or open enrollment) and current/retired Elmbrook staff members. Current areas of interest/expertise sought include alumni and retiree outreach, large event planning, endowment campaigns and accounting/treasurer.
The Board of Directors is comprised of 12-18 community members with staggered terms. Accepted nominations are offered a term of 1-3 years based on the current openings for the area they represent. Board members are expected to attend one meeting a month, support EEF programs and events, and provide a leadership role on at least one committee.
April May Library happenings
On April 27 Jonell Neumann, Past President of the Milwaukee Rose Society who grows most of her roses in pots, and organically, will present a program "great roses for southeastern Wisconsin" at the South Milwaukee Library from 6:30-7:45 PM. The program is free. Registration not required.
We still have state and federal tax forms (No 1040 booklets). We also have the forms for amending your taxes as well as fiing for extensions.
Join us as we celebate National Children's Book Week, May 2-7. On Wednesday, May 4 the Library in cooperation with the South Milwaukee Public Schools and the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators - Wisconsin Chapter, will present a program "One World, Many Stories". Authors Sara Laux Akin, Janet Halfmann and Illustrator Carol Schwartz will present an evening of stories and art work. There will be activities, prizes and refreshments. The Program begins at 6 pm and runs until 7:45 pm
The Library will be closed on Friday, April 22 and reopen on Saturday, April 23 from 9am to 4 pm.
Be sure to check out the library's web site at www.southmilwaukee.org/library for an updated listing of events.
In Memory of Holly Christina Stahl (BCHS, Class of 2009) .......
Holly Christina Stahl passed away on December 21st, 2010. Her family has recently established a memorial scholarship fund in her name to be administered by the Elmbook Education Foundation. Holly would have celebrated her 20th birthday on April 13, 2011. Holly was truly a breath of fresh air and will be forever remembered.
Holly was a 2009 honor roll graduate of Brookfield Central High School. She had also attended Wisconsin Hills Middle School and Swanson Elementary School. Her family indicated that Holly was touched by so many wonderful teachers in Elmbrook throughout the years and that Holly was especially inspired by Joyce Sponcia (Grade 3 teacher, retired) and Molly Mathia (Holly's BCHS English teacher).
Congratulations to Brookfield's Fine Library
Thank You Mayor Ponto for your article that points out what some of us already knew. We have a fine library when comapred to other libraries of our size nationwide. Not only does the library focus on children to make them aware of the treasure in our midst, it provides programs and services for all age groups. And, we have a strong volunteer support group. It also provides a community center for many types of educational and social programs. Several years ago, a resident of the the rapidly growing City of Greenville in the Fox Valley near Appleton told me that its citizens voted down a library because in a few years books would be obsolete and would be all on computers! In the meantime, they will just continue to "borrow books" from the Appleton system! In any case there will still be a need to catalog and store the data for people to find it and use it.
May: Skin Awareness Month at Milwaukee Center for Longevity Medicine
My first year in Milwaukee, I experienced a very pleasant long summer. I walked, jogged, biked and walked at Lakefront having lots of outdoor exercise and fun. Although I don't have a family history of skin cancer my stepfather in his 60's was diagnosed with a malignant type of skin carcinoma. He has been getting regular yearly skin excisions to contain the skin cancer and prevent the spread.
Election News Analysis
This evening's news revealed that Janet Kloppenberg is requesting a recount after the Republican Waukesha County Clerk botched the initial vote count. With people like her, the Republican party doesn't need any more enemies. The least perception of impropriety destroys all credibility. Given the suspicion cast on the election by the error of the Clerk there is justification a recount now to restore the integrity of the system. This incident indicates that the election ststem is just as big a problem as voter fraud. Spend the money on the system rather than voter ID cards.
A bigger problem that surfaced in this election is the large number of local Clerks involved in elections: Some 5 thousand I believe. The majority of these would be township employees. Wisconsin has an extra layer of goverrnment called towns. Towns were an important part of government at the turn of the 20th century, providing basic services to a primarily rural population. Today, counties could easily provide those services like road maintenance and parks. This brings me to the next level. Major county department heads are still elected. These are County Clerk, Register of deeds, District Attorney,Coroner, Clerk of Courts, and Sheriff. From their inception, these offices provided clerical services, record keeping, and law enforcement. There were no skills or qualifications to be elected to do the job. Today, all of these functions are very complex and utilize applications of the latest technology. These positions are known as constitutional officers because they derive their existance from the state constitution. These positions should be removed by constitutional amendment and recreated by statute to require professional skills and education and appointed by a select committee chosen b y the county board..
May Events at the South Milwaukee Public Library
Celebrate Children's Book Week, May 1-7. A special program will be held at the library on Wednesday, May 4, 2011 from 6 -7:45 pm. Guest children's authors Sara Laux Akin and Janet Halfmann will talk about their children's books. Illustrator Carol Schwartz will demonstrate how illustrations are done. In addition there will be drawings for prizes and refreshments. The program is sponsored by the South Milwaukee Public Library, the South Milwaukee Public Schools and the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators, Wisconsin Chapter. The program is frree and open to everyone.
"One World, Many Stories" is the theme of the 2011 summer reading program, which starts on Monday, June 13.. Children who read for 300 minutes (or for the very young, listen to for 200 minutes) will receive prizes and books. Additional 300 minutes receive merchandise/food coupons. Wednesday afternoons will feature performers and Thursday morning will feature craft programs. The complete schedule of activities will be out in two weeks.
The library will be closed for the Memorial Day holiday on Saturday, May 28 and Monday, May 30


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The Oakland University Alumni Association (OUAA) honored two business school alums at the 19th annual Alumni Awards Banquet Friday, Oct. 25.
Thomas Mittelbrun, III, SBA '88, Benefits Director, National Electrical Contractors Association, received the Spirit Award recognizing exemplary volunteer service to the university.
Rick Williams, SBA '06, Co-owner, Burn Rubber Shoes and Founder and Creative Director, The Distinct Life, is one of two recipients of the Outstanding Young Alumni Award recognizing alumni who have demonstrated the worth of their education through their post-college achievements and, generally, have graduated within the last ten years.
About Thomas Mittelbrun SBA '88
Tom Mittelbrun is no stranger to the OUAA. He served on the OUAA Board of Directors for seven years, including valuable time on the sub-committee supporting the OUAA Scholarship Program. It was through this committee work that Tom saw potential for growing the annual OUAA golf outing, both in terms of participants and in scholarship donations.
"The focus of the golf event is to raise money for scholarships to help students finish their education and to expose people from all over the country to the university," he said.
Thanks to Tom's leadership and passion for helping OU students, more than $167,000 in proceeds from the outing has been added to the OUAA's scholarship endowment since 2007. "Tom is always an advocate. He never misses a chance to promote OU and encourage friends, colleagues and fellow alumni to visit campus, attend a basketball game, or come to an event," said Chris Carmody, regional director for GTS Advisors and Tom's former classmate. "Tom has a knack for connecting resources to OU."
This dedication to the university is reflected in Tom's family history. He is the first of four children in his family to attend Oakland. His siblings Dan, Sue, and Ken earned bachelor's degrees from Oakland in electrical engineering, management information systems, and finance/economics, respectively. His daughter Kaitlin currently attends OU for marketing and daughter Madison is in the Oakland Community College to Oakland University (O to O) Program for early childhood education and speech pathology.
For the past 24 years, Tom has served as the benefits director for the Electrical Workers' Joint Boards of Trustees with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in Southeastern Michigan. While earning his OU Bachelor in Business Administration, Mittlebrun earned a Journeyman Wireman certificate from the National Electrical Contractors Association and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. He went on to receive the Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS) designation from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He also completed the International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans' Administrators Master's Program.
About Rick Williams, SBA `06
Rick Williams'10 years of experience in marketing, brand development, and business ownership have paved the way for success in a variety of individual and collaborative entrepreneurial projects. As co-owner of Burn Rubber Sneaker Boutique in metro Detroit and the contemporary mens' boutique two/eighteen by Burn Rubber, Rick possesses a visionary approach to business.
Rick's business acumen and marketing experience have helped him to dissect what drives consumer behavior and understand why consumers must first identify with a brand, and then relate to it. Rick's ability to build relationships through trust and consistency played a key role in creating successful partnerships with major companies such as New Balance, Saucony, Reebok and U.S. Playing Card Company (Bicycle Playing Cards), to name a few. Rick was recently ranked as one of Complex Magazine's 50 "Most Influential People in Sneakers."
Rick is also owner of The Distinct Life, a brand development company that brings life to businesses in areas with untapped potential. For example, The Distinct Life has partnered with companies like Heineken and New Balance to shed positive light on the city of Detroit. Through the Distinct Life, Rick has participated in and developed fundraising initiatives for various causes like The Jordan Thomas Wachler Foundation, which contributes money to juvenile diabetes research and Wolverine Human Services, one of Michigan's largest agencies for rehabilitating delinquent youths. The Distinct Life also collaborated with Detroit Denim, as a part of the first offering of The Distinct Life's Dry Goods Collection.
Rick received his bachelor's degree in marketing from OU's School of Business Administration in 2006. As a student, his leadership was apparent through his involvement in OU's Greek life as an officer and member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. As Jean Ann Miller, director of the center for student activities and leadership development noted, "Through Rick's efforts on Oakland University's campus, he positively impacted his peers and commanded the respect of faculty and staff by successfully promoting the importance of being involved with one's community – on campus, locally and globally."


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Denver, Colorado – The American Indian College Fund (the Fund) received a renewal grant of $75,000 from Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc. to continue the Toyota Motor Sales Tribal College Scholarship Program. Each year, this program provides scholarship assistance to more than 100 students, helping them work toward obtaining their degrees at various tribal colleges and universities across the nation. The Fund, in partnership with Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., Inc., has been administering the program for more than a decade. It has supported nearly 1,000 American Indian tribal college students since the year 2000.
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Overview: 18th National Congress
In November 2012, China's Communist Party completed its most sweeping transfer of power in a generation, only its second orderly hand-over in more than six decades of rule. The party's 18th National Congress culminated on Nov. 15, when it unveiled a new leadership slate headed by Xi Jinping, the son of a revered revolutionary leader and economic reformer, who will face the task of guiding China to a more sustainable model of growth and managing the country's rise as a global power.
For this nation of 1.3 billion, the transition concluded a tumultuous period plagued by scandals and intense political rivalry that presented the party with some of its greatest challenges since the student uprising of 1989. After a confirmation vote by the party's new Central Committee, Mr. Xi, 59, strode onto a red-carpeted stage at the Great Hall of the People accompanied by six other party officials who form the Politburo Standing Committee, the elite group that makes crucial decisions on the economy, foreign policy and other major issues.
The ascension of Mr. Xi and other members of the "red nobility" to the top posts means that the so-called princelings have come into their own as a prominent political force. Because of their parentage, they believe themselves to be the heirs of the revolution that succeeded in 1949, endowed with the mandate of authority that that status confers.
Mr. Xi is facing a growing chorus of calls from Chinese elites to support greater openness in China's economic and political systems, which critics say have stagnated in the last decade under the departing party chief, Hu Jintao, despite the country's emergence as the world's second-largest economy and a growing regional power.
Mr. Hu, 69, also turned over the post of civilian chairman of the military to Mr. Xi, which made this transition the first time since the promotion of the ill-fated Hua Guofeng in 1976 that a Chinese leader had taken office as head of the party and the military at the same time. That gives Mr. Xi a stronger base from which to consolidate his power, even as he grapples with the continuing influence of party elders.
The new standing committee has allies of Jiang Zemin, Mr. Hu's predecessor, in five of seven seats, reflecting his considerable power despite being hit by serious illness. Li Keqiang, a protégé of Mr. Hu's, is expected to get the state title of prime minister next spring, when Mr. Xi becomes president. Mr. Li and Mr. Xi were the only members on the departing standing committee who are remaining part of the group.
The other officials on the new committee in order of ranking and their expected portfolios are Zhang Dejiang, head of the National People's Congress; Yu Zhengsheng, who will run a similar advisory body; Liu Yunshan, vice president and overseer of propaganda; Wang Qishan, the head of an anticorruption agency; and Zhang Gaoli, the executive vice premier, who helps manage the economy.
One princeling said earlier to be a contender for the committee, Bo Xilai, was felled last spring by a scandal after his wife was accused of killing a British businessman.
The princelings are not a coherent political faction, and their ranks are rife with personal and ideological rivalries. Their family connections may mean a greater confidence with wielding power and pressing for bolder changes. At the same time, that class has grown wealthy off China's political economy, in which officials and state-owned enterprises work together to reap benefits, often at the expense of private entrepreneurship. Even those princelings who support liberalizing the economy or the political system still believe in the primacy of the party, and their push for various reforms is seen as an effort to ensure the party's survival.
A flurry of revelations suggests that China's new leadership may be serious about trying to tame the cronyism and bribery that afflicts state-run companies and local governments.December 26, 2012, Wednesday
Xi Jinping, the new party chief, casts strengthening the armed forces as a centerpiece of the "Chinese dream" of national rejuvenation.December 15, 2012, Saturday
Opponents of China's "re-education through labor" system say new leadership could put an end to abuses at the labor camps, which confine perceived troublemakers without trial.December 15, 2012, Saturday
Xi Jinping, the new head of the Communist Party, appears to be tapping more deeply into the idea of a national revival than his recent predecessors did.December 10, 2012, Monday
The effort to suppress news of a deadly Ferrari crash, insiders now reveal, hastened the decline of the departing president, Hu Jintao, and spurred the ascent of China's new leader, Xi Jinping.December 5, 2012, Wednesday
After the 18th Party Congress officially ushered in China's new leaders, faint hopes for change were met with a lingering political apathy in Beijing.November 29, 2012, Thursday
A new generation of Communist Party leaders has barely taken over in China and maneuvering has begun to position their putative successors, known as the sixth generation, to key posts.November 27, 2012, Tuesday
The Yujiapu financial district, seen as a symbol of the nation's growing economy, was financed by state-owned banks, but is also closely associated with a little-known local politician.November 20, 2012, Tuesday
The blunt remarks by Xi Jinping were made Saturday at a meeting of the Politburo, which announced a turnover of 15 members last week during the change in leadership.November 20, 2012, Tuesday
Critics, including some Communist Party insiders, say China's process of selecting leaders produces a meritocracy of mediocrity.November 18, 2012, Sunday
The image of China's most enduring pop-folk icon, Peng Liyuan, has been made over since Xi Jinping was set on the path to being party secretary.November 17, 2012, Saturday
Xi Jinping gave his first speech as general secretary of the Communist Party, impressing many Chinese by avoiding slogans but giving no indication as to whether he favors fundamental reforms.November 16, 2012, Friday
Li Keqiang has been exposed to a rich palette of liberal thinking, but he will be hemmed in by the conservatives who dominate the seven-seat Politburo Standing Committee.November 16, 2012, Friday
The departing general secretary of the party, Hu Jintao, prepared to hand power on Thursday to Xi Jinping, son of a revered revolutionary leader who was also an architect of China's economic transformation.November 15, 2012, Thursday
The depth of graft in the People's Liberation Army will pose a delicate problem for the new leader, Xi Jinping, one that could undermine the Communist Party.November 15, 2012, Thursday
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Since China's first ruling committee was appointed, each successive leader has enjoyed less authority than the last.
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Despite today's euphoria, when Barack Obama takes office in January 2009, he will inherit a decidedly grim reality. He will preside over a culture of overweight, overwrought and overextended Americans who may not have the capacity to sustain the sense of hope on which we are now so happily drunk.
He will have to stride unflinchingly into the economic aftermath brought about by an overgrown model and preach measure and moderation to a country that has long worshipped at the altar of consumption. He will be singularly charged with purifying our toxic collective consciousness, with eradicating the seeds of cynicism, apathy and malaise. Once inaugurated, Obama is Atlas – the weight of the world and its future resting on the shoulders of one man. Now is the time for us to truly rise. To come together as a single entity of disparate parts working to recreate American culture and resurrect the American dream. Our hopes, our dreams and our strength cannot concentrate in the body of one man. It is our job, as cultural creatives, jammers and meme warriors, to truly seize this opportunity for change. This is our window. The world is listening.
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April is National Poetry Month — and at Code Switch, we like poems. We will be exploring a set of broad issues of race and ethnicity in modern poetry for the duration of the month.
Kima Jones, an emerging poet, has developed a strong presence in the literary world — and on social media. And to kick things off, she'll be guiding us through an audience-based Twitter poetry session this Wednesday. You can join us at 12 p.m. EST, and pitch in your own lines for our poem by tweeting at @NPRCodeSwitch and @Kima_Jones with the hashtag #CSPoetry.
When we first came up with the idea, one of the main goals of our poetry month project was to specifically seek out new poets of color. We wanted to share fresh voices that don't get heard as often: young poets who were livening up the literary landscape. That's when we found Kima Jones.
Jones is a 2013 PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellow and a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow in poetry. In her work, she explores themes of racial and sexual identity in the modern world and the future (she describes herself as an Afrofuturist). Born and raised in Harlem, Jones believes her identity as a queer black woman is central to her poems — and the idea of isolating race from art is, well, not her favorite.
"I think it's bull- - - -," Jones says, laughing. "I am a black woman who writes. I don't think it's possible to separate the two. I don't think it's possible — my politics are around creating visibility for black people."
Jones' poetry often invokes a sense of intimate nostalgia — a warm thirst for a moment or a place that was, or that could have been. The verses change pace on a dime. They vibrate. Her work features a gamut of different contexts and settings — however, across many of her poems, one image recurs often: black bodies.
"I talk about the black body, first, as my own singular body as a black woman in the world," Jones says. "And then, the family unit as a body, the church unit as a body, the mosque as an open body — as a city, Harlem, itself as a black body."
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On encountering poetry for the first time
I got into writing when my fourth-grade teacher introduced the Harlem Renaissance week project to the class, and she brought in some writers to talk to us more about the Harlem Renaissance. We started studying Langston Hughes. At that time, Walter Dean Myers also did a visit to our class, and we read his book Scorpions. ... And there was a poetry competition happening.
So the [teacher], she chose one girl and one boy who wrote the best poem and would read at the Schomburg [Center for Research in Black Culture] with Walter Dean Myers, and so we all were writing poems. My poem was chosen. So my first public reading of my life was at the Schomburg [Center] with Walter Dean Myers.
And I remember he signed my book, you know, "To Kima, a fellow writer and poet," and it kind of just shaped my thinking about my identity and who I was.
On Afrofuturism
It's an aesthetic, grown out of the idea, very simply, that there will be black people and people of color in the future. I mean, that's the very simple way to put it ... Afrofuturism is a way of writing ourselves into the world and into the future and being committed to a future that's also free of racism, and sexism, and capitalism and these things that have enslaved minority peoples. ...
It's imperative that we create the art that we want to see in the world, and that we write the future that we want. I mean, being realistic, right? Because you know certain things won't happen — but the first point of writing the future that I want is putting people of color in the damn future.
On black bodies
When we look at media, and we look the way black bodies are used — there has to be a different presentation in my art, and there has to be a different lens with which to look at them. And again, to humanize black people, because if we just look to TV or newspapers — or if we just take, for example, Hurricane Katrina, and the way they laid those children out in the street and just photographed them, it was horrible. It was deplorable to just see small black bodies laid out like that. You could liken it to a garbage bag. You can say, "God, have I ever seen a photograph of white children — even after something as devastating as a hurricane — laid out in the street and just photographed like that, no respect for the dead?" And you wouldn't have. ...
So I think in writing the black body is my way of trying to humanize what happens to the black body everywhere else and in other pieces of literature.
On the poem "Fresh"
"Fresh" was one of the first poems I wrote when I found out — so, I'm infertile. I cannot have children. And so it was very difficult for me. The diagnosis was very difficult for me. ... I'm the oldest of eight. My siblings have children; all my younger siblings have children. I don't.
I felt like one of two things was happening — first, that your grandmothers, and your aunts, your mom teaches you all these lessons about your body — and so that's where you get the birds and the bees. And the birds and the bees, they tell you that if you do this thing, this act, that this thing would happen. And we're warned against that. And so my rebuttal in the poem is: "But the bees lie, but the bees. ... " My grandmothers said this would happen, but someone lied, because this is not happening. ...
And then the second part: I was very close to my grandmother, and my feeling is that all of the wisdom that she's given me, all the life lessons, everything that I've learned from her — who will I give this to?... It was about me wanting to do something with the beautiful person that my grandmother was and with all that she's taught me.
Coming Out In Basketball: How Brittney Griner Found 'A Place Of Peace'
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Brittney Griner is 23 years old, 6 feet 8 inches tall and one of the best female basketball players in the world. She was the WNBA top draft pick last year, and in college she set records for the most blocked shots in a season and the most career blocks in history — for male and female players. She's so good that the owner of a men's team — the Dallas Mavericks — has said he'd recruit her.
Now, Griner is also an author. She's co-written a new memoir, In My Skin, in which she describes being bullied and taunted as a kid for her height and athleticism.
She says, "Growing up, I always got 'She's a man,' or 'She plays too hard,' or 'There's just no way that she can be that good because, you know, a girl can't do that.' And I struggle with it a little bit. I'm like: Well, am I going too hard? And then I just realized, like, I'm a competitor. I want to go as hard as I can, and if I look like a guy out there playing ball, well, hey, I feel sorry for the opponent."
Sports writer Dave Zirin likens Griner's talent to that of Wilt Chamberlain or LeBron James. "She plays with a kind of emancipated abandon," he says, and he admires her openness about the sexism and homophobia she's encountered in the not-particularly-progressive world of college athletics. "She represents a break from the sexual McCarthyism in women's sports."
Griner came out as a lesbian while playing at Baylor University in Texas. There, she was a much beloved star, but Griner had no idea her school had a policy against homosexuality until her coach urged her to keep quiet about it. Griner disclosed her sexual orientation in interviews with SI.com and ESPN shortly before leaving college. Now she's made it something of a mission to address closet culture in women's sports.
"I had a girl come up and tell me how her coach basically told them that they could not be gay on their team," she says. "And I've heard stories of some coaches will not recruit you if you are."
Griner brings a defiant gender nonconformity to the court — and to the culture that surrounds it. Her distinctive fashion sense impresses even hard-core sports writers who don't generally care about such things.
"She dresses like a 1920s male dandy," Zirin marvels. "And it's pretty amazing to see. I don't know anybody who pulls off argyle socks quite like Brittney Griner."
She has shoulder-length braids and a ton of tattoos, but she looks to Ellen DeGeneres — known for her sleek, red carpet suits — as a fashion role model, because, she says, "It shows that we're not just big-baggy-clothes butch."
Griner proudly identifies as butch, and that makes her rare among women in the public eye. When Nike endorsed her as its first openly gay athlete, the company asked her to model its menswear line.
"It looks a little bit better on me, honestly, than some of the tighter female clothes," she says grinning.
So when the WNBA recently showed players possible new "sleek and sexy" uniforms — part of a plan to attract more men to the games — Griner was startled.
"The shorts came in short or extra short," she says. "As soon as I heard that — 'sleek and sexy' — I was like, 'Um, excuse me, I play basketball.' "
And it's basketball that brings in Griner's fans. Attendance at Phoenix Mercury home games shot up more than 30 percent since she joined the team, and ESPN2 decided to keep broadcasting WNBA games partly because of her popularity. Griner says all this would have been unimaginable to the middle school kid who once considered suicide because of the constant teasing about her looks and carriage.
"Now I want to stand out," she says. "I want to show off how big I am; I want to show off my long arms, my big hands — just loving myself."
She pauses, then adds: "It's just a place of peace."
In Book's Trial Of U.S. Justice System, Wealth Gap Is Exhibit A
Investigative journalist and author Matt Taibbi has long reported on American politics and business. With an old-school muckraker's nose for corruption, he examined the events leading up to the 2008 financial crisis in Griftopia. With Gonzo zeal, he described a two-party political system splintered into extreme factions in The Great Derangement.
And in his newest book, Taibbi sets out to explain what he thinks is a strange state of affairs:
"Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. The prison population doubles.
Fraud by the rich wipes out 40 percent of the world's wealth. The rich get massively richer. No one goes to jail."
The result of his investigation is The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap. The book explores the connections between growing income inequality and a justice system that Taibbi says disproportionately punishes the poor.
Although he found the subject matter disturbing, Taibbi tells NPR's Kelly McEvers that he took an odd sort of pleasure in writing the book.
"I thoroughly enjoy this topic in kind of a dark way," he says. "There's a kind of deviousness and brilliance that is on display in a lot of these things that is really fascinating to me."
Interview Highlights
On how he discovered 'the divide'
I was covering these gigantic Wall Street white-collar-criminal scandals, and I became interested in the concept of why nobody was going to jail, why we didn't have criminal prosecutions. And then it occurred to me that it's impossible to really talk about the gravity of that problem unless you know who is going to jail in the United States, and how those people go to jail and how that works.
What I ended up finding is that it's incredibly easy for people who don't have money to go to jail for just about anything. There's almost an inverse relationship between the ease with which you can put a poor person in jail for, say, welfare fraud, and the difficulty that prosecutors face when they try to put someone from a too-big-to-fail bank in jail for a more serious kind of fraud.
On media coverage of white-collar crime
Over time I think a kind of Stockholm Syndrome develops, it's kind of the same thing that happens with campaign reporters and candidates: You start to sort of sympathize with the people you cover in this weird subterranean, psychological way.
I think what ends up happening is these stories get written about, but they get written without outrage, or without the right tone, and they are also not written for the right audiences. They're written for Wall Street audiences who want to find out how this lawsuit turned out. They may not want to see those people thrown in jail, they just might be interested in seeing how far the government is willing to go this week in putting white-collar offenders in jail.
On comparing banks and people
The HSBC case was the biggest drug money laundering case in history. This is a bank that admitted to washing over $850 million for a pair of Central and South American drug cartels. They admit to this behavior, they pay a fine, no individual has to do a day in jail. All I really wanted to say was, here are our actors at the very top of our illegal narcotics business who are getting a walk from the government, a complete and total walk ...
I went to court that day, I asked around and said, "What's the dumbest drug case you saw today?" I found an attorney who was willing to put me in touch with a number of people who had been busted and thrown in jail for having a joint in their pocket.
It's not so much that it's so unfair that somebody who smokes a joint goes to jail. It's just that I think there's this weird psychological thing that we're developing where we just sort of look at one kind of offender and we think that person is appropriate for jail, and another kind of offender we just don't think that person is appropriate for jail increasingly, and that's what happened in this case.
'A Very Sordid Story'In this audio clip, NPR's Kelly McEvers asks Matt Taibbi about the most salacious case in his book, The Divide. Taibbi tells the story of Fairfax Financial and the short-sellers who Fairfax alleges took revenge when a deal didn't go through as expected. The company sued in 2006. Taibbi says it's a great example of the judicial divide between the rich and poor. It's easy to think hedge fund managers can't be criminals, he says, because they're often seen as polite and refined. "[But] in many cases, they're really not," Taibbi says. "I mean, in this case, they're just as streety and gross as any other kind of criminal."
'In Paradise,' Matthiessen Considers Our Capacity For Cruelty
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Editor's note: Peter Matthiessen died Saturday, shortly after this story published and just days before this latest novel, In Paradise, is due to be released.
At age 86, Peter Matthiessen has written what he says "may be his last word" — a novel due out Tuesday about a visit to a Nazi extermination camp. It's called In Paradise, and it caps a career spanning six decades and 33 books.
Matthiessen is the only writer to ever win a National Book Award in both fiction — for his last book, Shadow Country, and adult nonfiction for his 1978 travel journal, The Snow Leopard.
Matthiessen is filled with the vitality of past adventures as he leads a tour of his country-style home on the East End of Long Island. I visited him in March, on the day before he was to begin a round of experimental chemotherapy for cancer.
On the living room wall are a dozen large black-and-white photographs of New Guinea tribal warriors. The pictures were taken in 1961 — half by the author, the others by his traveling companion, Michael Rockefeller, who disappeared on that expedition, and may have been the victim of cannibals. Matthiessen wrote a book about that journey called Under the Mountain Wall — one of his many nonfiction chronicles of man and his relation to the natural world.
His new novel, In Paradise, is based on a different kind of journey — a trek into the Heart of Darkness. In 1996, Matthiessen, who is a Zen Buddhist, traveled to Poland on a meditation retreat. It took place at the former Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz. What he saw floored him — he recalls the barbed wire, the watch towers, and the crematoriums.
"The gas chambers were all blown up at the end of the war, so they are simply these grim-looking pale ruins out in the distance," he says. "It's a very grim scene. And so it's the enormity of it that just stuns you the first time."
Matthiessen tried to capture that experience in a book of journals, but he says the writing was flat. So he cast the story as a novel. The hero of In Paradise was born in Poland to a Jewish mother, but taken to America as an infant and baptized. Now, with a faded photo in his pocket, he is returning — 50 years later — to search for his mother in the place where she may have perished:
In this empty place then, at the end of autumn, 1996, what was left to be illuminated? What could the witness of warm, well-fed visitors possibly signify? How could such "witness" matter, and to whom? No one was listening.
McKay Jenkins is editor of The Peter Matthiessen Reader and has also done research at a concentration camp in Austria. "The way he articulates the rage, the despair, the existential delirium when you're in a place like this was precisely what I felt," Jenkins says."... What he does in this book is that he captures the incredible brokenness that one experiences at this place," Jenkins says. "[Matthiessen's phrase ] 'broken-brained and wholly broken-hearted' is precisely the way one feels."
With In Paradise, Matthiessen's career has come full circle — from writing about the extinction of animals in his early nonfiction, to writing about the extinction of man. "Man has been a murderer forever," he writes.
"The number of people killed in the past century — human beings killing each other is phenomenal, you know?" Matthiessen says. "How has civilization — so called — come this far and people are still designing tools to kill each other? For no other purpose than killing. Why are we doing it? Why are we doing it?"
Matthiessen says he wants the readers of In Paradise to consider the potential for evil in all of us.
'A Very Sordid Story'In this audio clip, NPR's Kelly McEvers asks Matt Taibbi about the most salacious case in his book, The Divide. Taibbi tells the story of Fairfax Financial and the short-sellers who Fairfax alleges took revenge when a deal didn't go through as expected. The company sued in 2006. Taibbi says it's a great example of the judicial divide between the rich and poor. It's easy to think hedge fund managers can't be criminals, he says, because they're often seen as polite and refined. "[But] in many cases, they're really not," Taibbi says. "I mean, in this case, they're just as streety and gross as any other kind of criminal."
In The 1870s And '80s, Being A Pedestrian Was Anything But
We may think of baseball as America's national pastime, but in the 1870s and 1880s there was another sports craze sweeping the nation: competitive walking. "Watching people walk was America's favorite spectator sport," Matthew Algeo says in his new book, Pedestrianism.
"In the decades after the Civil War there was mass urbanization in the United States [with] millions of people moving into the cities," Algeo tells NPR's Robert Siegel. "And there wasn't much for them to do in their free time, so pedestrianism — competitive walking matches — filled a void for people. It became quite popular quite quickly."
Huge crowds packed indoor arenas to watch the best walkers walk. Think of it as a six-day NASCAR race ... on feet.
"These guys were walking 600 miles in six days," Alego says. "They were on the track almost continuously. They'd have little cots set up inside the track where they would nap a total of maybe three hours a day. But generally, for 21 hours a day, they were in motion walking around the track."
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On what you saw at a pedestrian match
[For] six-day walking matches, the rules were pretty simple. They would just map out a dirt track on the floor of an arena — many of the matches took place at the first Madison Square Garden in New York — and the lap was about 1/7th or 1/8th of a mile. And you could only walk six days because public amusements were prohibited on Sundays. So beginning right after midnight on Sunday night/Monday morning, the walkers would set off and they would just keep walking until right up until midnight the following Saturday.
But people didn't go just to watch the people walk. It was a real spectacle. There were brass bands playing songs; there were vendors selling pickled eggs and roasted chestnuts. It was a place to be seen. There were a lot of celebrities who attended the matches: James Blaine, the senator from Maine, was a fan. So was future president Chester Arthur. Tom Thumb attended many matches. And so people went to see celebrities and see the spectacle, not just to watch the people walk.
On champion pedestrian Edward Payson Weston
[Edward Payson Weston] was one of the most famous pedestrians of the 19th century. He was ... a door-to-door bookseller from Providence, R.I. And ... in 1860, he made a bet with a friend on the presidential election. [He] bet that Lincoln would lose, and of course he lost the bet. The terms of the bet were that the loser had to walk from Boston to Washington in 10 days to see the inauguration. And Weston did this. It generated much publicity.
People were fascinated by the idea that somebody would walk from Boston to Washington in 10 days in the dead of winter on these horrible roads. And all along the way, large crowds came out to see him. And after the war, Weston, still famous, decided to capitalize on his fame by taking the act indoors. He would go to a roller rink, say, and attempt to walk 100 miles in 24 hours. And people would pay 10 cents just to come and watch him walk in circles for a day.
On Weston's competitor, Dan O'Leary
Dan O'Leary ... was the first great rival to Edward Payson Weston. I call them the Muhammad Ali/Joe Frazier of their generation. Weston was a flashy guy. He wore ruffled shirts and sashes and capes and carried a cane ... he really understood that it was about entertainment as much as it was an athletic event.
Dan O'Leary, on the other hand, was kind of a taciturn guy. He was an Irish immigrant from Chicago and he would walk ramrod straight, upright with his arms moving like pistons. He was sort of the Joe Frazier character in this. He was all about the competition. ...
He was really one of the first famous Irish-American athletes. He was from Chicago, which, of course, had a large Irish population. There was almost kind of an internationalist rivalry between the two of them, Weston representing old England and O'Leary representing new America — kind of pull yourself up by your bootstraps America. A guy that was self-made, came to the States with nothing and made the equivalent of a million dollars today engaging in these walking matches.
On Frank Hart, a great African-American pedestrian
He was actually an immigrant from Haiti who was a grocery store clerk in Boston and, on a whim, entered a six-day race in Boston and performed so well that he immediately moved up to the major leagues so to speak. ... "The Negro Wonder" is what many of the papers called him; it was always mentioned that he was black. But it was an opportunity for him and for other African-Americans at the time to take part in what was largely a white sport.
On the gambling and fixing scandals
Gambling was a big part of the allure, no doubt about it. You could bet on who would be the first pedestrian to drop out of the race, who would be the first pedestrian to, say, achieve 100 miles in a race. There were so many different ways you could gamble on the walking matches. And so the pedestrians themselves were often susceptible to attractive offers from gamblers to fix races.
On "performance enhancing drug" scandals
[Weston] was found to be chewing coca leaves while he walked in a race in 1876. This wasn't strictly illegal but it was considered unsportsmanlike and outright cheating at the worst. He admitted that he used coca leaves in a race, but he said it was under the advice of his doctor.
On how pedestrians drank champagne throughout the race
Champagne was considered a stimulant. And a lot of trainers — these guys had trainers — advised their pedestrians to drink a lot of champagne during the race. They thought that this would give them some kind of advantage. The problem was a lot of these guys would drink it by the bottle. That definitely was not a stimulant to say the least.
On how bicycles took over pedestrianism as the popular spectator sport
In 1885, an Englishman named John Starley invented what is called the safety bicycle. Before the safety bicycle, bicycles were the penny farthings — with the ginormous front wheel and the tiny little back wheel. And the penny farthings weren't very nimble or fast, but the safety bicycle, which is the bicycle we know today, these were much more nimble, much faster and they were much more interesting to watch race around a track for six days than the pedestrians just walking.
It sort of went from a NASCAR at superslow motion to a NASCAR at slow motion. And the other advantage of the bicycle races is that especially at the end, when the competitors were completely sleep deprived, there would be spectacular crashes, and of course the crowd enjoyed that a lot.
On the lasting legacies of pedestrianism
For one, the whole idea of corporate sponsorship ... so prevalent in modern sports really began with pedestrianism. Pedestrians had lucrative sponsorship deals. Dan O'Leary was the spokesman for a brand of salt. John Hughes, another pedestrian, was sponsored by the National Police Gazette, a popular newspaper, and he actually raced with a shirt that had the paper's logo on it. But for a more concrete example, you can go to London. The Royal Agricultural Hall was the site of many great six-day races involving Americans and Brits, but it is one of the few tangible, physical remnants of the great walking matches of the 1870s and 1880s.


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The St. Roch Ravens had to work a little overtime to claim the championship at the 4th annual Turner Fenton Silver & Black Senior Boys Basketball tournament on the weekend.
The Ravens needed overtime to dispose of Lorne Park 63-62 in the tourney semifinal before edging Brampton Centennial 64-61 in the championship tilt. Centennial edged the host Turner Fenton Trojans 53-49 to advance to the final.
St. Roch went undefeated in four contests to claim the tourney title, downing Heart Lake 41-34 in their opener. They followed that up with a 64-53 win over the Bramalea Broncos.
Brampton Centennial opened the event with a 62-30 rout of St. Paul's before downing Rick Hansen 69-45.
Central Peel claimed the consolation crown, downing Rick Hansen 82-60. Central Peel lost 57-45 to Mississauga's Lorne Park in their opener but rebounded to down Bishop Allen 76-29. They stopped Bramalea 59-54 in the consolation semifinal.
Rick Hansen won their opener 54-44 over St. Paul's before falling 69-45 to Brampton Centennial. They got by Lincoln Alexander 65-60 in their consolation semifinal.
The tournament awards were spread around with St. Roch's Lamar Joseph earning Most Valuable Player honours. The all-star team was made up of Trai Wilson of Rick Hansen, Riley Reid of Lorne Park, Kelvin Oteng of Turner Fenton, Nicholas Campbell of Brampton Centennial and Tyrell Hoyme of Central Peel.